October 22, 2007

Well the 52 weeks are over. I will now finish my small scrapbook of her 1st year, that has one week on each page. If you ever visit, you are welcomed to see it. It is quite fun to look at. I say the 52 weeks are over with joy and sadness. Joy that Anna is such a delightful person and a joy in our family. She even voluntarily folded her arms during family prayer tonight. I say it is sadness, becasue she really isnt' a baby any longer. It is terrible how time goes by so fast. She is a toddler, so now we are entering the next new, very fun, phase of her childhood. The whole family adores her and she really is James' personal toy. They have such a bond. Tonight we had Anna's birthday party. We smoked a turkey breast for her, her favorite, and made a cake. After lighting the candle, she seemed to be afraid of the cake. So, after that it really wasn't much to see like James and Emma doing swan dives into their first cake. Carl finally started to feed her ice cream, and that went over much better. You can see in one of the first pictures, she is getting her first molar. She isn't smiling a whole lot lately. You can see how it looks really painful. She did have a good birthday, and really enjoyed the musical drum set we got her, then her second favorite was a ride on pooh toy, and she also got the smallest "anywhere chair" from pottery barn. She thinks she is all grown up when she sits in it. You can see that Emma was all "gussey'd up" today. She had school pictures, so we did foam rollers last night. We have found our new favorite store for clothes for her. It is called Justice For Girls. SOOOO cute! I realize that I can no longer go clothes shopping for her, without her as she is so particular. Scary huh? She isn't even 5 yet! Ahhhh, someone save me! We told her to take off her nice red & black outfit so she wouldn't get cake and ice cream all over it. So, she goes up and puts on a really nice pink embroidered shirt, levi skirt with pink trim (from aunt Julie), frilly socks, and her pink cowboy boots! That was dressing down according to her, I guess. Carl got a new Ipod Nano, and so he gave James his old Ipod. He sure feels grown up. He loves it. I haven't seen him smile that much about anything, other than his baby sister! Well I will continue to send out email updates on our family, but I doubt as regularly since the goal was to show you all her first year, week by week.